At the foot of the Grand Éléphant and the machines of the Île de Nantes, families and tourists stroll on this Sunday morning, enjoying the mild autumn.
Barely 24 hours earlier, acts of rare violence nevertheless occurred in this cultural mecca of the former City of the Dukes of Brittany.
Saturday, around 5 a.m., a 40-year-old woman walks home after spending the evening with friends.
She is bothered by two or three young men - this point remains to be determined - demanding money and her telephone.
After her refusal, she is given a punch that throws her to the ground.
The individuals steal her cell phone and push her into a grove.
She would then have undergone an act of penetration by one of the attackers, after having had her clothes ripped off.
It was a resident who called the police, alerted by the calls for help from the victim.
Arrived on the spot around 5:40 a.m., police crews arrested three young people…
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